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Monday, January 21, 2013
BEST laugh of the day
36 comments:
- andrewt said...
Its not a good sign when the publisher's mission statement is full of poor/incorrect grammar.
- 21/1/13 4:44 am
- James Annan said...
Yes, it's hard to see how they could have done more to lower their impact and reputation. I wonder how on earth the journal was chosen?
- 21/1/13 6:58 am
- Hank Roberts said...
"It promotes awareness to all arenas of public to encourage research and aid scientific community by executing the significance of latest research."
"Would you like to register as a peer reviewer?"
"Would you like to register as a peer reviewer?"
- 21/1/13 9:04 am
- Hank Roberts said...
"India-based OMICS Publishing Group has just launched a new brand of scholarly journals called "SciTechnol." ...
We learned of this new launch because the company is currently spamming tens of thousands of academics, hoping to recruit some of them for the new journals' editorial boards....
OMICS Publishing group has exploited many young researchers by inviting them to submit article manuscripts, leading them through the editing and review process, publishing the article and then invoicing the author.
In most cases, the authors have no idea that an author fee applies until they receive the invoice....."
- 21/1/13 9:16 am
- William M. Connolley said...
> I'm actually half-wondering if the journal has stolen this manuscript as a way of generating content. Have any of the authors commented?
They link to it from the BEST homepage (http://berkeleyearth.org/available-resources/) so this must be legit.
- 21/1/13 9:51 am
- James Annan said...
I suppose they might have just worked their way through the decent options (and been too chicken for Climate of the Past, where the topic would fit very naturally, but the paper could have expected a proper review).
- 22/1/13 2:47 am
- David B. Benson said...
Something Is Not Right.
- 22/1/13 4:25 am
- Alex Harvey said...
Dear James,
This isn't about BEST per se but about the temperature record in general.
It is becoming more accepted that the tropospheric temperatures aloft are not following model predictions (quite) and the discrepancy needs to be resolved one way or another.
I understand that claiming that the models are wrong in their prediction of the "hot spot" is untenable.
Pielke, Klotzbach et al. have of course argued that there may be a warm bias in the surface record, and I recall you got involved in some way in that particular controversy.
Recently, Lindzen has added his voice to this position, and I think put forward an argument of his own. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this passage from Lindzen's most recent paper -
The response is characterized by the so-called hot spot (i.e., the response in the tropical upper troposphere is from
2–3 times larger than the surface response). The models are likely correct in this respect since the hot spot is simply
a consequence of the fact that tropical temperatures approximately follow the moist adiabat. This is essentially a
consequence of the dominant role of moist convection in the tropics.
However, we see in fig. 9 that the temperature trends obtained from observations fail to show the hot spot.
In point of fact, it seems likely that some of the recent temperature data must be wrong!
The resolution of the discrepancy demands that either the upper troposphere measurements are wrong, the surface
measurements are wrong or both. If it is the surface measurements, then the surface trend must be reduced from "a" to
"b". Although, it is generally ill-advised to estimate climate sensitivity from observed changes in temperature (simply
because of ignorance of all the relevant processes including especially natural internal variability on time scales of
centuries or less), it would be very difficult to simulate the trend at "b" with models having their current sensitivity.
Given how small the trends are, and how large the uncertainties in the analysis, such errors are hardly out of
the question. In fact there are excellent reasons to suppose that the error resides in the surface measurements. To
understand this requires an awareness of the Rossby Radius of Deformation.
3.2 Rossby Radius of Deformation
In dynamic meteorology, there is something called the Rossby Radius. It is the distance over which variables like
temperature are smoothed out. This distance is inversely proportional to the Coriolis Parameter (twice the vertical
component of the earth's rotation), and this parameter approaches zero as one approaches the tropics so that
temperature is smoothed over thousands of kilometers (detailed formulas can again be found on Wikipedia).
However, this smoothing is only effective where turbulent diffusion is small. Below about 2 km, we have the turbulent
trade wind boundary layer, where such smoothing is much less effective so that there is appreciable local variability of
temperature. In practice, this means that for the sparsely sampled tropics, sampling problems above 2km are much
less important than at the surface (Lindzen and Nigam [5]). Thus, errors are more likely at the surface.
An important philosophical point to this little exercise is that neither ambiguous data nor numerical model outputs
should automatically be assumed to be right or wrong. Both should be judged by basic, relatively fundamental theory
—where such theory is available.
Do you or your readers have any comments?
- 22/1/13 9:45 am
- Paul S said...
Regarding the presence of the hot spot on an atmospheric cross-section, this is a function of differential temperature trends in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The reason long-term model output produces a hotspot over the tropics is that tropospheric amplification (from surface warming) over that zone is at its maximum. Zonal tropospheric amplification over the extratropics is expected to be much smaller, less than 1 in the high latitudes.
As a simple example, if we say tropospheric amplification over the tropics = 3 and over extratropics = 1, and surface temperature trends in extratropics are 3 times greater than in the tropics, you wouldn't expect to see a hotspot: the mid-upper troposphere would have the same temperature in all zones. The point being that there is a dependence here on the spatial distribution of temperature trends at the surface. The simple example I've given is actually not far from what is actually observed.
From what I can see, most of the discrepancy between what models predict for differential zonal atmospheric temperature trends and what is found in observations is a result of a similar spatial discrepancy at the surface. In other words the issue here has little to do with surface vs. satellite trends, and is mostly simply a function of the specific zonal pattern of warming we've seen at the surface over the past thirty years.
- 22/1/13 4:28 pm
- Steve Bloom said...
Oh, it's AH with Lindzen's latest. That's way more deja vu than I can handle. Kill me now.
- 23/1/13 8:09 am
The OMICS connection of SciTechnol noted by Hank Roberts above is bad.
On another OMICS publication a fictional character became a member of the editorial board. See here for details:
- 23/1/13 9:56 am
- James Annan said...
I'm afraid that Lindzen's signal to noise ratio is sufficiently low that I would need some persuasion to bother looking at it. Where is this "most recent paper" published?
- 23/1/13 10:51 pm
- Steve Bloom said...
"(...) executing the significance of latest research." Nice catch, Hank!
- 23/1/13 11:58 pm
- Steve Bloom said...
And bizarrely, AH is not so interested in the fresh validation of Dessler (2010). Imagine that.
- 24/1/13 12:00 am
- James Annan said...
What is the Dessler thing? Link?
- 24/1/13 1:02 am
- Steve Bloom said...
Had to wrack my brain for where I saw it referenced since it doesn't seem to have appeared in Google Scholar yet, plus Andy seems not to have updated his site recently enough to show it, but here it is. This may also be relevant.
- 24/1/13 6:39 am
- Steve Bloom said...
There's also this at least somewhat related paper, which was on his site.
FWIW I did an exact phrase search on the Lindzen passage AH quoted and turned up nothing.
- 24/1/13 6:54 am
- Alex Harvey said...
Dear James,
I forgot to provide a citation. The paper is
R.S. Lindzen (2012): 'Climate physics, feedbacks, and reductionism (and when does reductionism go too far?)', European Physical Journal Plus, DOI 10.1140/epjp/i2012-12052-8.
I quoted the relevant section in full. The Lindzen and Nigam paper cited therein is (the much cited) paper -
R.S. Lindzen and S. Nigam (1987). 'On the role of sea surface temperature gradients in forcing low level winds and convergence in the tropics'. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 2418-2436.
- 24/1/13 1:57 pm
- Alex Harvey said...
Paul S.,
Thanks for your comments.
The point being that there is a dependence here on the spatial distribution of temperature trends at the surface. The simple example I've given is actually not far from what is actually observed.
From what I can see, most of the discrepancy between what models predict for differential zonal atmospheric temperature trends and what is found in observations is a result of a similar spatial discrepancy at the surface.
Although I don't fully understand your point, it does seem that you are not actually contradicting Lindzen here. Wouldn't it follow from your point as well that the surface record is less likely to be reliable? In any case when you say this is close to what is observed do you have a paper in mind that says this? Only reason being I'd just like to understand this better.
- 25/1/13 12:35 am
- Steve Bloom said...
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The imagination runs wild. :)
- 25/1/13 11:14 pm
- James Annan said...
So does the google :-)
- 25/1/13 11:49 pm
- Magnus said...
How novel is this approach to get the sensitivity?
2000 figures make the difference
When the researchers at CICERO and the Norwegian Computing Center applied their model and statistics to analyse temperature readings from the air and ocean for the period ending in 2000, they found that climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will most likely be 3.7°C, which is somewhat higher than the IPCC prognosis.
But the researchers were surprised when they entered temperatures and other data from the decade 2000-2010 into the model; climate sensitivity was greatly reduced to a "mere" 1.9°C.
- 26/1/13 3:09 pm
- Magnus said...
Sorry might be wrong paper...
- 26/1/13 3:13 pm
- James Annan said...
Looks like it might be that paper, though strange timing if so...
Andy Revkin has a post and quotes me in a comment.
- 27/1/13 8:00 am
- Magnus said...
Thnx, I have seen that you had a look at the IPCC part dealing with this... wich seams to me wont change the ECS much... might cut uncertenty in the high end... now that might change... ofc but a bet on 3 c (2-4.5) in ECS in the new IPCC report seams to be a good one?
- 27/1/13 2:15 pm
- James Annan said...
Well some of us might have some "inside info" in that we've seen the drafts...though they could change...so betting is probably not a great idea at this point :-)
- 28/1/13 10:10 am
- Magnus said...
True... btw, no new study jet if you missed that.
- 28/1/13 10:45 pm
- Paul S said...
Although I don't fully understand your point, it does seem that you are not actually contradicting Lindzen here.
As far as I can see Lindzen is simply referring to a much-raised issue, and then speculating on a possible cause. There isn't much to directly contradict. My point is a more general one: there are really two separate issues here that are often confused on climate blogs.
Wouldn't it follow from your point as well that the surface record is less likely to be reliable?
No, I can't see how that would follow. Essentially what I'm saying is that the mid-upper troposphere temperature change at any particular location can, to some extent, be calculated as a function of surface temperature change (SAT), e.g.
DeltaTropos = c * DeltaSAT
where c is some coefficient relating to the expected Tropos/SAT amplification over a particlar region. The presence of the infamous red spot over the tropics is thus dependent on the distribution of temperature change at the surface - a large bias towards high latitude NH warming and relatively little in the tropics, as we see in SAT+SST observations, is a pattern in which a prominent tropical hotspot would not be expected.
The second issue is whether the mid-upper troposphere over the tropics specifically is warming in-line with expectations due to surface warming in the tropics. It seems to me that AMIP model experiments using prescribed SSTs from observations provide a good route for interrogating this question, as described in an Isaac Held blog post. Prescribing SSTs means that surface warming in the models has a similar spatial distribution to that seen in observations. You can see in Held's post that the model output is very similar to RSS-observed TLT data.
This is where I would suggest that Lindzen's speculation concerning the accuracy of SST measurements appears unfounded. I can't see how the model could so faithfully reproduce the variance in the observed TLT time series if surface SST measurements were not sufficiently representative.
This is not to say the issue is at all settled, not even close. Po-Chedley & Fu 2012 provide a wider examination of the AMIP models against observations. Also, comparisons between models and satellite TLT data can't definitively validate since the satellite data doesn't have a great enough fidelity to isolate the particular vertical region of interest: instead it picks up varying trends all through the atmosphere and is a weighted average. Theoretically I think you could get similar TLT time series form very different vertical temperature trend profiles.
- 29/1/13 3:38 pm
- Paul S said...
Regarding the Aldrin paper and the report that climate sensitivity reduces from 3.7 to 1.9 when 2000-2010 data is included...
wouldn't that mainly indicate a problem with the method? Making small variations to the scope of input datasets is a common test of robustness, which this method seems to have failed.
- 29/1/13 3:49 pm
- EliRabett said...
"No, I can't see how that would follow. Essentially what I'm saying is that the mid-upper troposphere temperature change at any particular location can, to some extent, be calculated as a function of surface temperature change (SAT)"
Except where the constant changes. See 1998.
- 29/1/13 5:47 pm
- Paul S said...
I'm talking about long term trends over the whole record rather than inter-annual fluctuations. If the theoretical coefficient fluctuates it will still average to a single value over the whole period.
That said, this possibility of fluctuating coefficients is why the situation is better analysed through AMIP GCMs rather than simple statistical models.
- 29/1/13 8:25 pm
- James Annan said...
Paul, yes I'm a bit surprised at the 3.7 figure, as it does not seem consistent either with the published Aldrin et al paper or anything else of a similar ilk (which generally find a best estimate of under 3C, even for the older estimates with less data and high tails, eg fig 9.20 in the IPCC AR4).
- 30/1/13 5:49 am
- Paul S said...
Perhaps stupidly, I hadn't considered the press release might simply be wrong. I don't have access to the Aldrin paper but page 25 of this slideshow appears to indicate their posterior mean estimate is remarkably insensitive to a change of scope, whether using data up to 2009, 2000 or 1990.
The way these things go I wouldn't be surprised if this 3.7 figure was a misunderstanding of the paper or someone involved quoting the accepted radiative forcing of doubled CO2. The only other obvious possibility I can see is that 3.7 might have been the posterior climate sensitivity found for data up to 2000 when including a -0.5W/m^2 cloud lifetime term.
- 30/1/13 11:03 am
- Magnus said...
The old Aldrin paper is all there is at this moment. the other comes from unpublished material... What that will say when it is published is hard to know.
- 30/1/13 11:58 pm
- Paul S said...
Found a copy of the actual paper.
A couple of things I've noticed: Their fitted posterior, from which they presumably derive the sensitivity estimate, appears to significantly underestimate NH warming.
A related matter is that the posterior fit shows more warming in the SH than NH, despite that being far from the case in observations. This presumably happens because the simple climate model used to inform their method is fed with differential aerosol forcing in each hemisphere, and greater net forcing in the SH is fairly linearly translated into more warming.
However, the more complex CMIP5 models generally produce more NH warming over the historical period, even those featuring large negative aerosol forcing.
- 31/1/13 1:47 pm
- Dave said...
Just wanted to say I greatly enjoyed reading this post and comments. Oops, that sounds spammy, I should prove I'm not a spambot... er... looking forward to seeing more tools for estimating the predictive reliability of IPCC future warming estimates? (But then, aren't we all, I suppose.)
Well, I feel human, anyway.
- 4/2/13 7:48 pm

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Top Chef's Chris "CJ" Jacobson is on a seven-challenge win streak on Last Chance Kitchen, which should feel good right now... except for those pesky online comments.
On the weekly online series, in which ousted Top Chef contestants battle it out for a chance to re-enter the main competition, CJ recently trounced Micah in a head-to-head challenge over tartare. Chef Tom Colicchio, who is the sole judge on Last Chance Kitchen, deemed CJ's beef heart tartare with pickled duck skin and tomato water the winning dish. Some of the comments online, however, have called for blind tasting to remove the perception that Tom may be favoring CJ because of a supposed "bromance" between the two chefs.
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"I saw the word 'bromance' and was like, 'What?!? What the f--- are they talking about?'" CJ tells TVGuide.com. "I've known Tom longer than those other contestants ... but I don't think that he likes me so much that he's willing to put his integrity on the line on a show that's won Emmys. That's ridiculous. He doesn't do blind tastings on Top Chef. He knows who cooks what, and he did not like my burger [that caused me to be eliminated] there.
"I just think I've become a much better chef than I was before," he continues. "I wished they used the full thing that Tom said on Last Chance Kitchen. He's been saying that I'm cooking better, and that was hands down the best dish that I've done that he's tasted ... I think that once I won three, the word 'bromance' was going to be used no matter what. I think it's a really lame word."
And although CJ would prefer to be judged solely on the quality and execution of his food, perception does matter when it comes to Last Chance Kitchen. Should he (God forbid) lose a challenge, he has one more shot to stay in the game with the "Save a Chef" competition in which viewers vote each week for an eliminated Last Chance Kitchen chef. In the end, the "saved" contestant will earn a spot in the final round of Last Chance Kitchen. Thus far, the powers that be (and voters of course) have kept Chef Kuniko, and in a sense, both she and CJ have both been a constant presence in the Last Chance Kitchen competition, although she hasn't been actively cooking.
Check out what else CJ has to say about returning to Top Chef, how bad John really is and who he thinks should win among the remaining contestants:
Why did you decide to return to Top Chef? You were originally on Season 3...
CJ: The opportunity presented itself. When I was originally on, it had helped open a few doors. But also, I'm a much different chef than I was back then. I really thought I could win, so I wanted to check it out. And it's fun. I love being on Top Chef. I used to be an athlete, and there's not a lot of places where you can have a competition and satisfy those creative needs as well.
Did the producers have to coax you or reassure you about anything before you returned?
CJ: I had watched Top Chef a few times before and my last terrible vision was of these people shooting guns at the possible things they had to cook with and then they had to go skiing [in Season 9's biathlon challenge]. I was like, "Oh my God. What the f--- happened to this show that I used to love?" So I asked them, "Am I the only one coming back like a d-----bag? Will there be circus acts that we have to perform?" I just wanted to cook. They reassured me that the reason we were coming back was to make it far more culinary-driven for Season 10 and they wanted to make it more serious and stick to the food.
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Were you aware that your fellow competitors harbored some resentment for you as a returning contestant, thinking that gave you an advantage?
CJ: If I were them, I'd be like, "What the f--- is this? What's that guy's problem? Why is he coming back? What does he have to prove?" All of those things. But I didn't really go there for their feelings. I'm there because I want to do well and I loved it the first time.
Did you go back in with a strategy or intention?
CJ: I had one rule from before: Just be yourself. So if you lose, at least you were yourself and you don't have any regrets and then feel like a jackass. I think that's why I was sort of pissed off when I lost with Tyler. First of all, it was a team challenge, and I'd rather go down with the food I wanted to make, but we had compromised with that burger. That's why I was so pissed off and ready to kick some ass with Last Chance Kitchen.
Was there anyone you particularly wanted to take down in Last Chance Kitchen?
CJ: I knew I wanted to beat John.
Is John really that bad as he appeared on the show? He certainly rubbed people the wrong way.
CJ: He was really, really that bad. This is the guy who watched every episode of Top Chef since the beginning and applied to Top Chef every single year it's been on. He knows everything about every single episode and has analyzed everything. And [he] has this mental database and all of his weird ego and this sense of he missed the boat. He had cooked with all of these guys, you know? He cooked with [Anthony] Bourdain ... and then he had to deal with all of these "kids" 20 years or younger on the show. I'd probably be a surly weirdo too.
But he's not really terrible. After Last Chance Kitchen, he relaxed. I like him a lot and respect him a ton. We're actually friends now because on Last Chance Kitchen there's a lot of downtime, so he and I hung out a lot, played tennis.
Despite losing with a burger on Top Chef, you still enjoy them. What are some of your favorites around town?
CJ: I love burgers. I eat burgers like twice a week. It's one of my favorite foods. I like Pie 'n Burger in Pasadena. And The Spice Table burger is sick. It has some kimchee on it and they use American cheese and a really nice, soft bun. I like soft, smaller buns. That sounds funny. And a shrimp paste. They put ground dried shrimp in their grind, so it's a ton of umami.
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I hear there was a Top Chef connection on how you got your current job at The Mercantile wine bar in Los Angeles. How did that happen?
CJ: I'm consulting for George Abou-Daoud who owns the Bowery St. group of restaurants. One day I got a phone call from [Top Chef alum and fellow Season 10 returning veteran] Stefan [Richter]. He was like [in a Stefan accent/voice], "Hey, what are you doing? You've got to call this guy. He's got a job. You've got to cook for him. It's easy. No problem, just make it sexy. No problem." So I called George up and we hit it off. He wanted to revamp the menus at a couple of places he owns, including The Bowery, Rosewood Tavern and The Mercantile. I love The Mercantile. It's a beautiful setting. It has freaking parking! That's a big f---ing deal in L.A.
Were you able to use your food point of view with this?
CJ: My point of view is very California. I had worked at Noma (in Copenhagen, Denmark) where René Redzepi decided to focus on Nordic Cuisine. I really wanted to do the same thing with California food. Granted, I'm not going to do what René Redzepi does. I'm not going to have an army of foraging sous chefs and go out in the brush of California, but I cook hyper-seasonally and I'm really inspired by the market and have good relationships with the farmers. There are certainly some things that are indigenous to California that are forage-able like sorrel. But George wanted stuff that can be there year 'round.
What's sorrel, and do you use it at The Mercantile?
CJ: It's an herb. What first you taste is this sort of green, chlorophyll flavor and then the acid-citrus comes in and then there's the sweet. It doesn't taste like any other herb. I'm in love with that herb so that's why I wanted to put it into a dish. On The Mercantile menu is this marinated tomato and farro salad with lots of herbs, including sorrel, and smoked ricotta salata. I also have a cured salmon dish with a lot of dill and beans -- very clean and vibrant-- and a grilled cheese sandwich with a cup of soup. I also love our mussels. They're made with a smoked tomatillo, so when I bring them up to temperature and they start to open up, all of that beautiful liquid melts in with this sort of tomatillo base we have. And the smokiness makes it taste sort of like bacon. It's good with tostones -- these potatoes that we bake and then we smash them down, kind of like you would a plantain.
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Of the remaining Top Chef contestants, who do you think is the best?
CJ: For me, my frontrunner would be Brooke Williamson. She's modest and is my friend, so she'd be stoked to read that. But she's the real deal and is a really complete cook. She's done pastry. She can make anything really. I think that she's coming into her own in the competition creatively.
What else do you have going on in your career?
CJ: I have a pop-up on Feb. 14-17 called This Is Not a Pop-Up at Square One. I am the executive chef of a restaurant in Studio City called Girasol and that should be opening in late February-early March. I just did a TV show called Knife Fight. It's an hourlong battle, three ingredients, make two dishes. You can use whatever you want and do whatever you want. So I just filmed that yesterday. It'll be on this new network called The Esquire Network, but right now it's G4.
Are you done with the Top Chef franchise for good?
CJ: The franchise, no. There's always little offshoots and stuff, but I'm not doing Top Chef again. I think I've passed that in my life.
Top Chef: Seattle airs Wednesdays at 10/9c on Bravo. Last Chance Kitchen plays online at BravoTV.com.
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Even before the Sandusky trial, the State College community had absorbed another huge blow as Paterno died Jan. 22 at age 85 of lung cancer.
The year ended with a small step to normalcy — joy on the football field. Under new coach Bill O'Brien, the Nittany Lions won eight of their last 10 games to finish 8-4, capped by an overtime victory at home over Wisconsin.
There were 157 ballots submitted from U.S. news organizations. The voters were asked to rank the top 10 sports stories of the year, with the first-place story getting 10 points, the second-place story receiving nine points, and so on.
The Penn State saga received 1,420 points and 109 first-place votes. The No. 2 sports story, Lance Armstrong stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, had 10 first-place votes and 1,008 points.
Football's popularity, college and pro, was unmistakable with seven of the top 10 stories. But only two of them involved the action on the field.
Here are 2012's top 10 stories:
1. PENN STATE: Sandusky, the former defensive coordinator whose crimes led to such devastation for his victims and for his former employer, was found guilty on 45 of 48 counts. In October, the 68-year-old was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. His conviction provided some closure, but a messy aftermath remained. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh released the results of his investigation July 12, saying Paterno and other top school officials covered up allegations against Sandusky. The NCAA used that report as a basis for its sanctions announced later that month, which included a $60 million fine, a four-year bowl ban and scholarship reductions.
2. LANCE ARMSTRONG: In February, federal prosecutors closed an investigation into whether the star cyclist doped. That turned out to be only a temporary reprieve for a once-revered figure. In June, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency accused him of using performance-enhancing drugs, and in August, when he dropped his fight against the charges, USADA ordered his record seven Tour titles wiped out. A report released in October laid out vivid details of the evidence. The year ends with Armstrong dropped by many of the companies he endorsed and no longer formally involved with the cancer charity he founded, Livestrong.
3. NFL BOUNTIES: This much is clear: Saints coach Sean Payton was suspended for the entire season and New Orleans started 0-4 to quickly fall out of playoff contention. Much else about the bounty scandal remains in dispute. Players deny the NFL's assertions of a pay-for-injury program. On Dec. 11, former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned his successor's suspensions of four players but endorsed the findings of the investigation under Roger Goodell.
4. FOOTBALL CONCUSSIONS: The deaths of NFL greats Alex Karras — who suffered from dementia — and Junior Seau — who committed suicide — were grim reminders of the angst over head injuries in the sport and their possible consequences. Thousands of retired players have sued the league, alleging the NFL failed to protect them from the dangers of concussions.
5. LONDON OLYMPICS: Michael Phelps retired from swimming after setting an Olympic record with his 22nd medal at a Summer Games bursting with memorable performances. Usain Bolt became the first man to successfully defend both the 100- and 200-meter dash titles. And the host country racked up 65 medals in an Olympics so successful for Britain that it barely even rained.
6. COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Instead of complaining about the BCS, soon we can moan about the selection committee. After years of carping, fans finally got a playoff system, which will debut after the 2014 season. The four-team bracket will feature semifinals and a title game to determine a national champion.
7. REPLACEMENT OFFICIALS: Fans and pundits predicted a blown call would decide a critical game when the NFL started the season with replacement officials. Sure enough, in Week 3, on the national stage of "Monday Night Football," a missed offensive pass interference penalty and a questionable touchdown catch handed the Seattle Seahawks a win over the Green Bay Packers. Two days later, the league resolved its labor dispute with the regular refs.
8. SUPER GIANTS: A team that had been 7-7 upset the top-seeded Green Bay Packers on the road in the playoffs, needed overtime to beat the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC title game, then came from behind to defeat the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl, 21-17, an outcome strangely similar to their matchup four years earlier. Eli Manning won his second Super Bowl MVP award.
9. SUMMITT RETIRES: Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in NCAA basketball history, retired from the Tennessee bench in April at age 59, less than eight months after revealing she had early-onset dementia. Longtime assistant Holly Warlick took over the Lady Vols. Summitt was 1,098-208 with eight national titles in 38 seasons.
10. MANNING'S RESURGENCE: Peyton Manning was released from the Indianapolis Colts in March after missing last season because of neck surgery, the future uncertain for the four-time MVP. John Elway and the Broncos gambled that he still had some championship play left in that right arm, and so far it's looking like a brilliant move as Denver won the AFC West.
AP Projects Editor Brooke Lansdale contributed to this report.


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A new building constructed to look like an old-time Western-style saloon houses The Wild Rose Quilt Shop & Retreat in Orting, Washington. The owners, husband-and-wife team Robbie Burns and John Rendell, are former law enforcement officers who infuse fun into everything they do.
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From left: Sharon Farr, Holly Wilson, Heather Spence, Robbie Burns (co-owner), John Rendell (co-owner), Andria Peterson, and Lisa Isaacs; not pictured: Karen White.
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The Wild Rose Quilt Shop & Retreat offers a wide selection of fabrics that includes an extensive collection of reproduction prints.
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Sharon Farr, Lisa Isaacs, and Joann James designed Beautiful Dreamer for Quilt Sampler® Spring/Summer 2011 magazine.
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In the center star of Beautiful Dreamer Krista Moser machine-quilted a feather design in each star point and narrow parallel lines in the tan triangles. She highlighted the checkerboard units with a swirl design and in the small star blocks she showcased a loop design in each star point and parallel lines in the tan triangles to match the center star. She accented the remaining elements of the quilt top with feather designs.
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Play up the checkerboard units of Beautiful Dreamer with black and red. Quilt tester Laura Boehnke re-created the center portion of the original for a 48-1/2"-square quilt. Light backgrounds let the star blocks pop while giving the eye a place to rest. Fabrics are from the Night and Day 3 collection and Patrick Lose's Mixmasters-Dot to Dot and Mixmasters-Scribbles collections, all from Robert Kaufman Fabrics.
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When you're visiting The Wild Rose Quilt Shop & Retreat, take the time to check out these other local attractions.
Bill's Fishin' Hole, 17612 ?219th Ave. E, Orting, WA 98360; 360/893-7786. Year-round rainbow trout fishing.
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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, 5400 N. Pearl St., Tacoma, WA 98407; 253/591-5337. Bonus views of Puget Sound and Mount Rainier.
Scholz Farm, 12920 State Rte. 162 E, Orting, WA 98360; 253/848-7604. Produce stand, corn maze, and more.
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Myths and Misconceptions About Christmas
Posted by mattusmaximus on December 15, 2012
Once again the season is upon us, when much of the world's population celebrates Christmas and all the holiday trappings thereof. I've made numerous posts on the subject before, including The Physics of Santa Claus, how the idea of Santa Claus can be used as a tool to teach critical thinking to kids (including a podcast interview I did on the subject), and the tongue-in-cheek celebration of Newtonmass 🙂
And, of course, along with all of that, there is not to be missed the chance to spread some skepticism and critical thinking regarding Christmas in general. To help with that, my skeptical colleague Phil over at Skeptic Money has once again posted the Ultimate Christmas Quiz that you can use to test your (and that of your friends and family) knowledge of the holiday. You might be surprised to learn about all of the myths and/or misconceptions which exist in popular culture about Christmas…
Ultimate Christmas Quiz
Note: if you enjoy this quiz, check out The Ultimate Easter Quiz.
There are 12 questions below, how many will you get right? Can you do better than your friends? Your christian friends?
Pull out a piece of paper and mark your answers.
FYI… The answers are at the bottom (no cheating….) count your correct answers and see how you score.
The Ultimate Christmas Quiz – By David Fitzgerald
1. What year was Jesus born?
a. We don't know for sure, since the gospels disagree irreconcilably.
b. We don't know for sure, but the gospels agree it was during the reign of Herod the Great (died around 4 B.C.).
c. We don't know for sure, but the gospels agree it was when Quirinius was governor of Syria (6 A.D.).
d. We don't know for sure, but the gospels agree it was the year the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars.
e. D'uh! The year zero, of course.
2. According to the Gospels, what day was Jesus born?
a. Dec 25th.
b. Dec 24th.
c. No date is given in any gospel.
d. The day of the Winter Solstice.
e. The third night of Hanukkah.
3. What pagan holiday did later Christians "borrow" to celebrate Jesus' birthday?
a. The Greek Brumalia festival
b. The Roman feast of Saturnalia
c. Dies Natalis Solis Invicti ("the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun")
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
4. So what day was Jesus really born?
a. Jan 6
b. Feb 2 (Groundhog Day)
c. March 25
d. We can't be certain.
e. Sometime during Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles
5. According to Mark (the oldest gospel) where was Jesus born?
a. He doesn't say.
b. By the chimney, with care.
c. In his parent's house in Nazareth.
d. A manger in Bethlehem.
e. A cave in Bethlehem.
6. According to Luke, who were the Wise Men?
a. A group of 2 – 12 Zoroastrian astrologers from Persia.
b. Three kings of orient bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh from afar.
c. There were no Wise Men.
d. Cupid, Donder and Blitzen.
e. Melchior of Persia, Caspar (or Gaspar) of India, and Balthazar of Arabia.
7. According to Matthew, who showed up on the night of Jesus' birth?
a. Shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night
b. An angel and a multitude of the heavenly host
c. The prophet Simeon and the prophetess Anna
d. Ten lords a-leaping
e. No one.
8. What happened after Jesus' birth?
a. Impossible to say for sure – two of the gospels tell completely contradictory stories, and the other two say nothing.
b. Good tidings were brought for him and his kin; and then figgy pudding, for they would not go until they get some.
c. Scary stuff: An angel warns Joseph via a dream to flee their home in Bethlehem for Egypt. Herod kills all the baby boys in the region. After Herod's death, they return to Judea but are afraid of Herod's son, so they move to Nazareth in Galilee instead (evidently, Matthew forgot that Galilee was ruled by Herod's other son!).
d. Happy stuff: The shepherds spread the good news to all, baby Jesus is circumcised, and after the obligatory 40 days for ritual purity, brought to the temple in Jerusalem where prophets hail him as the Christ. They return home to Nazareth and go back to Jerusalem every year for Passover until Jesus is twelve.
e. We aren't told, the gospels immediately cut to his adulthood.
9. Which of these traditional Christmas elements were originally pagan?
a. Christmas Trees
b. Yule Logs
c. The Birth of the Savior
d. Boughs of Holly and Sprigs of Mistletoe
e. All of the above
10. Where does the word "Yuletide" come from?
a. It's an abbreviation of the Latin ultimus ides, "last holiday of the year."
b. From Germanic/Old Norse "Jul-time" or "Jól-time" (the midwinter fest).
c. Named after Julius Caesar, who invented Sanctus Clausius, the Roman Santa Claus.
d. Named in honor of Hywll Tydd, ancient Welsh god of reindeer and socks.
e. Nordic priests copied the name from the Christian Christmastide.
11. Who started the War on Christmas?
a. True American Christian Fundamentalists and the Founding Fathers
b. Richard Dawkins
c. Godless atheists, the liberal media, gays and lesbians, activist judges, science teachers, lawyers, the ACLU, democrats and everyone else we hate.
d. The Jews
e. Al Qaida
12. Our familiar modern American "Santa Claus" is based on all these earlier figures, EXCEPT for:
a. The English Father Christmas, Charles Dickens' characters and the Victorian cartoons of Thomas Nast.
b. The Dutch Santa, Sinterklaas or Goedheiligman
c. A de-horned, sanitized, anagram of Satan.
d. Mighty Norse thunder god Thor's father, Odin
e. St. Nikolaos, 4th-century Greek bishop and patron saint of children.
Bonus Question! (re-gifted from the Ultimate Easter Quiz)
13. Who wrote these gospels, anyway?
a. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John – I mean, come on, it says so right there.
b. Actually, none of the gospels even claim to be written by eyewitnesses -all were originally anonymous and written at least a generation later.
c. Well, it's more like the end of first century for Mark and sometime in the early to mid 2nd century for the others, if you must know.
d. Hold on – Not only that, but Matthew and Luke just reworked Mark gospel, adding their own material and tweaking Mark's text to better fit what they thought it should say.
Incidentally, if you want the answers, then you have to go visit Phil's website for them. Cheers! 😀
2 Responses to "Myths and Misconceptions About Christmas"
December 17, 2012 at 4:42 am
Facts … ah, facts … how I love them, a true absolute.
Trying to mix facts with the imagination of religion? A valiant cause, skeptical teacher, but are any religious believers ready to question the tenet's of such faith? My experiences say not likely, but there is an optimist in me.
Deep inside this skeptic there dwells both despair and hope.
December 20, 2015 at 3:33 am
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JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The Jamestown Ironmen completed a three-game sweep over the Soo Eagles with a 5-2 win in Game 3 of the NAHL North Division playoff finals Thursday night.
The Ironmen raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening period, getting goals from Daniel Cesarz, Evan Ritt and Ryan Doucet.
Alexander Taulien and Dante Suffredini scored goals for the Eagles in the second period.
But the Ironemn put the game away with goals from Dylan Zink and Huba Sekeski in the third period. Sekeski's goal was an empty-net tally with 1:32 remaining.
Eagles goaltender Tyler Marble made 31 saves, while Joe Ballmer made 24 saves for the Ironmen.
The Ironmen improved to 6-0 in the playoffs, and advance to the Robertson Cup in Frisco, Texas, May 10-13.
Jamestown is the No. 4 seed at the Robertson Cup.


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Nearly 200 protesters gathered in front of the White House on the afternoon of June 14 to denounce continued U.S. support for Ethiopia's incumbent regime. Chanting in native Amharic and rallying around the Ethiopian flag, the crowd members were predominantly from DC's sizable Ethiopian diaspora.
On May 23, Ethiopia held its fourth national election since transitioning to democracy in 1993. The transition away from dictatorship seems incomplete, however, when all four election have reelected President Meles Zenawi and his monolithic EPRDF party by landslide majorities. This year's officially reported win margin was 99.6% vote for Zenawi, representing the government's repression of opposition, use of voter intimidation, and rejection of election monitors. This is a significant regression in democratic governance since the last election Ethiopia held in 2005.
The protesters reacted strongly to this regression, calling on the U.S. to change its foreign policy and aid practices, which currently help prop up Zenawi's regime. Ethiopia receives the third largest amount of foreign aid from the U.S. after Israel and Egypt, receiving $862 million in foreign assistance in 2009. This inundation of aid and diplomatic silence by the U.S. is projected to be because Ethiopia is such valuable U.S. ally in the volatile horn of Africa and in the War on Terror.
But Ethiopians, both in the Horn of Africa and in the U.S. diaspora, are enraged that the U.S. is prioritizing the stability and anti-terrorism policies of their corrupt despot, Zenawi, over encouraging free and fair elections.
The State Department's assistant press secretary has remained markedly vague and diplomatic, promising, "We will work diligently with Ethiopia to ensure that strengthened democratic institutions and open political dialogue become a reality for the Ethiopian people."


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Lofty adventures
CANANDAIGUA — As the sun sinks beneath the shrub line and the car headlights flicker on along the Gorham country roads, the wicker basket of the hot air balloon skids past a puddle-sized pond and tips its passengers into an unkempt farmer's field full of crickets.
Pilot Lee Teitsworth warned of the two types of landing earlier in the evening. There's the calm drop of the basket with a few gentle hops and an upright stop: the photogenic finish. Then there's the windy, "rip out" or "highway" landing, when the basket — often urged on by a gutsy gust — is dragged to a halt and the passengers topple onto the other, the balloon by then on its side.
Either way, the flight ends with a champagne toast and an almost immediate melancholy at being stuck back on the ground.
It all started a couple hours earlier on a plot of grass off Lakeshore Drive in Canandaigua with the guys from Liberty Balloon Company, their trucks and 350 pounds of nylon.
Twenty-four-year-old newlywed Lee Teitsworth was to pilot one of the balloons. His father, Carroll, would take the other. Lee's brother, Lance, and a friend, who goes by J, would head up the chase crew — the landside bunch who follow the flight in pickups and trailers, guide the landing, then help pack everything back up.
First, they set up the basket and attach the propane fuel, then inflate the balloon with a high-powered fan.
The balloon is some 68 feet tall, ready to go.
Before take-off, Lee says explains that the balloon goes where the wind beckons it. This night, it's west, and south.
"The beauty of ballooning is once you take off, all the noise and commotion is gone — it's just peaceful and calm," says Lee. "You're just floating with the wind like a bubble, like a toy balloon. Most of the time, you don't even feel the wind on your face."
A crowd mills about the launch site as the balloons lift off and head for Canandaigua Lake, waving hello or goodbye. Lee shouts back through a smile. More hands go up in response.
The rippled waters drift past underneath. Boats, docks, homes, dogs, people, cars.
Lee brings the balloon down, and glides across the lake near shore, a few feet over the water. Boaters and beach-bathers wave, and Lee leans over the basket to wave back.
He adds more propane, and powers the ballooon up to gently "kiss" his dad's balloon — nylon on nylon.
Once the lake is cleared, the shimmer of golden sun on the waves yields to the geometry of farmed fields and planned housing. Cars pull to the side of the street to watch the balloonists. A buck darts through the fields, freaked out by the looming shadows.
During the day, Lee works as a loan officer for a mortgage broker. "That could be more rewarding," he says of his day job, "but this is more fun."
The basket dips into tidy rows of corn stalks, skimming the buds within reach of the ears, but the flames lift the balloon back up — just in time, it seems — to clear the trees at the edge of the farm. Lee leans out and snags a few leaves as he passes.
The pilot doesn't have much control over where the balloon goes, he says. The wind decides the route and all you can do is lift or duck through the currents to change direction.
"It's like a writer deciding to write a sonnet," says Lee. "You adapt to the challenge of having limited control."
What has since become a family affair started 30 years ago, when U.S. Navy airplane pilot Carroll Teitsworth said goodbye to wings and started full time as a balloonist. Since then, both his sons, Lee and Lance, his wife and one of his daughters joined ranks and formed the Liberty Balloon Company. Carroll's other daughter, and her husband, also balloonists, fly out of Virginia.
Lee offers these bits of biography as he squeezes the propane trigger and talks positioning on the radio with the chase crew as the balloon sets its sights on a fine patch of empty farmland to touch down. Carroll's balloon drifts off a few fields away and lands upright to the delight of spectators, with cameras and questions.
J grabs the ropes of Lee's balloon and guides it around the pond before they come to the "rip stop."
Dozens of crickets hop into the folds of the deflated balloon as Lee and J roll it back up and stuff it into a canvas sack, ready for the next run.
The green of the ground lacks the distant promise it held while afloat. Earthbound, it all seems pedestrian again.
Nothing left to do but celebrate the success.
Ballooning was the first form of flight, says Lee as a prelude to the champagne toast: The Montgolfier brothers invented this first form of flight around 1783, in France.
It was a paper balloon, a wooden platform and a fire fed with rubber shoe soles and pig dung, he says. They thought it was the smelly smoke that propelled the craft, not heat. Their paper balloon soared nonetheless.
The smelly, smoky craft took its first human passengers into the country to its virgin public. Unfortunately, that public was not yet ready for its spectacle. The scared peasants formed a mob and attacked the landed craft with pitchforks, tearing it to shreds, says Lee.
Bound and circled by a raging mob, the pilots offered their only defense: a bottle of champagne, which immediately proved the floating creatures were, in fact, Frenchmen and not aliens.
So, to this day, every balloon flight ends with just such a champagne toast. This night, they celebrate with the farmer whose field they landed in, gathered around his barn. The cups reads: "Friendly Landowner, Calm Winds, Safe Landing."
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ABOVE PHOTO: In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, people walk below a New York Police Department security camera, upper left, which was placed next to a mosque on Fulton Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. Civil rights lawyers are telling a judge that the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities violates federal guidelines established to stop the NYPD from conducting political surveillance.
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WASHINGTON — The New York Police Department's focus on Muslims has renewed the political surveillance of the 1960s and '70s that was banned under a landmark legal ruling, according to a new court filing by civil rights lawyers. They are seeking an injunction against further surveillance of Muslims without evidence of crimes and a new court-appointed auditor to oversee police activities.
Describing continuing surveillance of Muslims as "widespread and intense," the civil rights lawyers complained that the NYPD has monitored public places where Muslims eat, shop and worship and has kept records and notes about police observations despite any evidence of unlawful or terror-related activities. The lawyers said the NYPD's actions violate rules, known as the Handschu guidelines, that a court had imposed as part of a 1985 landmark settlement with the NYPD to a lawsuit they filed.
"There is substantial persuasive evidence that the defendants are conducting investigations into organizations and individuals associated with the Muslim faith and the Muslim community in New York, and have been doing so for years, using intrusive methods, without a reasonable indication of unlawful activity, or a criminal predicate of any sort," the lawyers wrote in a motion filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. They said the NYPD's actions were so "flagrant and persistent" that an auditor should be appointed.
A spokesman for the NYPD did not respond to a phone message and email request for comment from The Associated Press.
The NYPD and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have said the department follows the Handschu guidelines and did not break any laws over the course of its surveillance of Muslim communities. NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly has said the department has plenty of oversight, including five district attorneys, a committee that investigates police corruption, the NYPD's own internal affairs office and the court-imposed Handschu guidelines.
The spying was the subject of a series of stories by the AP that revealed the NYPD intelligence division infiltrated dozens of mosques and Muslim student groups and investigated hundreds. The NYPD is the largest police department in the nation, and Bloomberg has held up its counterterrorism tactics as a model for the rest of the country. The new court motion by the civil rights lawyers refers repeatedly to the AP's reporting and includes some internal NYPD documents the AP had obtained and published.
The motion focuses on a particular section of the NYPD's intelligence division known initially as the Demographics Unit and later renamed the Zone Assessment Unit. This unit is at the heart of the NYPD's spying program, built with help from the CIA. It assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed. Police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.
Supporters said the Demographics Unit was central to keeping the city safe, though a senior NYPD official testified last year that the unit never generated any leads or triggered a terrorism investigation.
The Handschu guidelines came out of landmark lawsuit the lawyers filed and a subsequent 1985 court settlement that set strict time limits for investigations, imposed rules on the kinds of records police could keep and created a three-person body to oversee such investigations.
The last time civil rights lawyers in the Handshu case filed a motion like this was in November 2005. It was not immediately clear when the judge will make a ruling on the new motion.


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DeLap optimistic about coaching future
Despite deciding to resign due to health issues, former Ionia boys basketball coach Mark DeLap said he is not ready to give up his passion for being on the bench sometime in the future.
The 34-year coaching veteran informed Swinehart about a week ago that he was resigning from his post effective immediately due to his health issues. He said that having to step down from the Bulldog job was a tough decision.
"The team was starting to gel and had improved from last year by 150 points on offense," DeLap said. "I thought that our defense was coming along and I think that the team will be in a position to do some damage in the second half of the season."
"I hated having to step down when I did, but (athletic director) Scott Swinehart is no second-rate coach. If anybody can salvage the season, it's him."
Swinehart has coached the Bulldogs in their last two games and will be the head coach of the team until the end of the season.
DeLap said he has been battling the same type of virus that has hospitalized TV journalist Barbara Walters, which lead to him suffering from a 103-degree fever earlier this year and caused him to have a fainting spell while in the equipment cage at the high school.
After being examined by a doctor, DeLap found out the cause of his illness and that his blood pressure was elevated, which he said was extremely unusual.
"My blood pressure has always been low, even with the pressures of coaching," he said. "I have it regulated now with medication, but I thought it best to step away from coaching for a while, which has been tough because it is such a passion of mine."
Although his health has forced him to step away from the court for now, DeLap said he is no stranger to bouncing back from adversity, and is focused on returning to coaching.
"I have broken my neck twice, recovered from a devastating car accident and I am a cancer survivor and been able to bounce back," he said. "With things the way they are right now (with my health), I might hard to employ right now, but I am not ready to give up on the idea of coaching again in the future."


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6 Questions to Ask Architecture Firms
If you've been looking for an upscale residential architect or commercial architect on Long Island, contact Ronald Kuoppala Architecture. As one of the leading architecture firms in the area, they have been designing award-winning architecture since 1996 and are credited with creating some of the most incredible buildings in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties. A member of the American Institute of Architects and NCARB certified, when you choose Ronald Kuoppala Architecture, you can have confidence knowing that your property will be created by one of Long Island's most reputable architectural design firms.
Architecture design is a complex process that involves creating a beautiful, yet functional structure. There are a variety of steps involves in the process of designing a property. The skills, values, and expertise of each architect differ, and in order to ensure that your vision becomes a reality, it's important that you choose an architecture firm that has ample experience and shares the same goal as you.
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What does the Design Process Entail?
Typically, there are four distinct phases of the architectural design process, and these phases include programming (or pre-design), schematic design, design development, and construction development (or construction drawing). A reputable design firm will incorporate all of these phases into their process; however, the way in which these four phases are managed varies from architect to architect. Understanding how the professional you will be working with goes about these phases can be helpful, as it will give you a better idea of what you can expect throughout the project.
How Long will My Project Take?
While setting an exact timeline can be difficult, it's important to get an estimate – and it should be realistic. Knowing when an architect can begin on your project and when he or she expects to be completed is extremely important; after all, construction on your building can't begin until the design is completed.
What are Buildings Have You Designed in My Area?
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Firstly, the design and zoning guidelines differ from each county and city; guidelines can even vary from subdivision to subdivision. Working with an architect that has experience in your area and understands the zoning process and what's involved with attaining permits will help to simplify the process and ensure everything goes as smoothly as possible.
Secondly, working with an architect that has designed buildings in your area means that you will be able to see physical examples of his or her work; not just a portfolio of photos. While photographs can certainly showcase the overall design of the projects that a prospective architect has completed, if you really want to get a feel for the professionals to work, you're going to want to actually buildings that the prospective architect has designed.
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According to the American Institutes of Architects (AIA), you should always ask for references. A reputable professional will be more than happy to provide you with the names and contact information of clients and contractors that he or she has worked with in the past. Make sure you follow up with the references that are provided; find out what people who have worked with the firm have to say and whether or not they would recommend their work. If potential architects aren't willing to furnish references, consider it a red flag and continue your search.
How do You Charge Your Clients and What's Included in Your Fees?
Architecture firms can charge in a variety of ways, so you want to make sure that you have a thorough understanding of the way in which the firm you are considering charges. For example, some architects may charge for the amount of time they spend on a project, while others might charge based according to the square footage of the property. Additionally, the services included with their fees can vary, so be sure that you find out what services you will receive.
Will You be Involved in the Construction Process?
Plans can change or builders may have questions; therefore, it's a good idea to choose a firm that will be involved in the construction process. That way, if something does come up, the architect will be able to answer any questions or make any necessary changes to ensure the best possible outcome.
Ronald Kuoppala Architecture: A Leading Long Island Architecture Firm
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MIKE NADEL: Bulls collapse leaves fans with little patience
Yes, the fan was throwing in the towel after Thursday night's 81-74 loss to the Pistons, and I don't blame him. Down 3-0 in the Eastern Conference semifinals to a Detroit team that is superior in every way, the Bulls have as much chance of winning four straight games as I have of starring in a shampoo commercial.
And yes, Wallace should have been red-faced. He showed up 76 minutes before tip-off; team rules require players to be 90 minutes early. It seems nitpicky, and it certainly didn't appear to matter when the Bulls were zipping to a 49-30 third-quarter lead. But it was disrespectful to coach Scott Skiles and the organization, especially given that Wallace is a "leader" with a $60 million contract. And it speaks to the lack of discipline
that undid the Bulls.
By discipline, I'm not talking about behavioral problems. I'm talking about lack of focus and poise. This wasn't a case of the Bulls simply being overwhelmed by the Pistons, as happened in Games 1 and 2. This truly was a choke job of Cubbian proportions.
When the Pistons started coming back, you could sense the Bulls getting tight. When the game got close, you could feel the panic. When the Pistons went ahead, well, enjoy those rally towels and drive home safely, everybody.
"When they got it (close), we started shot-faking again and had some fumbles and lost some handles," Skiles said. "We got tentative. We couldn't find our rhythm.
"What has become a trend, when (the Pistons) want to do something, they do it. When they want to penetrate, they penetrate. When they want to shoot 3s, they shoot 3s. We haven't had a lot of answers.
"Once it got tight, they turned it up and we weren't able to go with them."
Luol Deng, the closest the Bulls have to an All-Star, went 4-for-13 from the floor and 2-for-5 from the line in the second half. Meanwhile, whether he was trying to defend Tayshaun Prince or Rasheed Wallace, the Pistons found that player, fed that player and were rewarded when that player burned Deng time and again.
I don't mean to pick on Luol, a good kid who won the NBA's Sportsmanship Award. I'm just recounting what happened to one of the Bulls' top guns. What chance did the Bulls really have in this series?
"We knew they were gonna make a run; we just didn't answer," Deng said. "We played better today, but we're saying that it's still a loss. It's hard losing a game like that. It really hurts."
There was plenty of hurt to go around. Ben Gordon, who fancies himself a big-game performer, came up empty for a third consecutive playoff game and got to watch a true big-game performer - Chauncey Billups - carve the Bulls to bits.
Kirk Hinrich was a second-team NBA All-Defense selection, but he was thrashed soundly by Rip Hamilton. And Rasheed Wallace took good buddy Ben Wallace behind the woodshed.
Big Ben supposedly was late because he got caught in particularly bad traffic. Well, after a round of golf and a work meeting in the afternoon, I was driving in from the distant suburbs, too. I managed to make it to the United Center in plenty of time.
And while I consider my job important - after all, whose picture would you put on your dartboard if I didn't offer my smiling mug to your newspaper? I think it's fair to say Wallace had a little more at stake.
And so the questions remain. Can Skiles be The Coach to lead the Bulls to greatness? Do the Bulls have a championship-caliber nucleus? What must general manager John Paxson do to make his team a legitimate contender? (Didn't I just read in the Los Angeles Times that Kevin Garnett wants out of Minnesota?)
Skiles was asked why he didn't use Chris Duhon, who had been a pretty valuable role player the last three years.
"Coach's decision," Skiles said. "I hadn't been able to stick to our top seven players. We had to find out if we stick to our top seven, are we good enough to beat them?"
Well, at least the Bulls had a definitive answer for one question.
Mike Nadel is the Chicago sports columnist for GateHouse News Service. Write him c/o the Journal Star, I News Plaza, Peoria, IL 61643 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com


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